Tom Harper

Doctoral Student

Teaching Assistant

Student, Oriel College

tom [dot] harper [at] cs.ox.ac.uk

+44 (0)1865 610710

Room 470, Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QD

Biography

I am a DPhil Student in Computer Science supervised by Dr Ralf Hinze. My thesis is on shortcut fusion, a program transformation technique for improving performance, in the Haskell programming language. Currently, I am working on implementing a fusion backend for the Utrecht Haskell Compiler (UHC). Previously, I have worked on modelling fusion transformations formally and tying the findings to practical implementations. Additionally, I am a Teaching Assistant for the Department, where I supervise practicals and teach classes during term time. I am also a Teaching Assistant for the Software Engineering program's Functional Programming (FPR) course.

Before I started my DPhil, I received my MSc in Computer Science from Oxford in 2008. My dissertation, "Fusion for Haskell Unicode Strings", was supervised by Dr Duncan Coutts and Prof Oege de Moor, in which I created the Data.Text library. Before coming to Oxford, I earned a BSc cum laude in Computer Science at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York.